Learning Style Learning style refers to Natural habitual
Learning Style • Learning style refers to – Natural, habitual and preferred ways of • Absorbing, processing, and retaining new info Everyone has a learning style : a biological and developmental set of characteristics
Distinction between learning styles and strategies Learning Styles; • Fairly fixed • General approaches Strategies; • Dynamic & alterable • Specific actions
Learning Style • Learning styles involves – Perception – Cognition – Conceptualization – Affect – Behaviour = Various learning style models and definitions exist
Learning Style • Multidimensional and encompasses five stimulus categories 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Environmental Physical Emotional Sociological Psychological
Learning Style • • • Value-neutral approach for understanding individual differences Represent different views of complex phenomena Most significant elements for adolescents and adult learners : 1. 2. 3. 4. Perceptual strengths Brain Hempisherity Analytical vs. Relational Learning Independent vs. collaborative work orientation
Perceptual Strengths – Visual learner: learns more effectively through the eyes (seeing). – Auditory (aural) learners: learns more effectively through the ears (hearing). – Kinesthetic learner: learns more effectively through concrete body experience (body movement). – Tactile learner: learns more effectively through touch (hands-on). – Haptic learner: learns more effectively through touch and body movement (a combination of the kinesthetic and tactile styles).
Hemispherity: Left-Brain vs. Right Brain
Hemispherity: Left-Brain vs. Right Brain – The right brain: • perceives and remembers visual, tactile, and auditory images. • more efficient in processing holistic, integrative, and emotional information. • Combining parts as a whole. • Seeks relationship • Image-making power : spatial and visual tasks
• The left brain: – is associated with logical, analytical thought, with mathematical and linear processing of information. – Most efficient for mathematics, musical notation, and language.
Teaching Techniques for the Right Hemisphere
Analytical (Field-Independent) and Relational (Field-Dependent) – Field independent learners pick out the hidden figures in a complicated drawing more quickly. They tend to perceive elements independently of a context or field and focus on details. They are more analytical. – Field dependent learners are more inclined to see the whole drawing and have difficulty separating it into parts. They tend to perceive the whole field or situation and focus on general meaning. They are more relational.
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